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Last Checked March 7, 2021

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Tue Jun 02 10:49:38 +0000 2020

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

Racism is the use of the law of large numbers (and scaling) in the opposite direction, by attributing presumed population traits to single individuals. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 2, 2020 Hibernated

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The fellow @octonion knows his stuff (probabilist, certified nonBSVendor). Similar to data from Northern Italia (adjusted for obesity, etc.). That is almost a lower bound as we can have fatalities from people infected 2 months ago. — PolitiTweet.org

Christopher D. Long @octonion

@KyleRutten1 @EthicalSkeptic @nntaleb IFR > 1.3% in NYC Preprint on New York antibody survey of >15,000 people. Cu… https://t.co/9ei…

Posted June 2, 2020 Hibernated

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Our paper explained on @physorg_com https://t.co/4pTfZrFZxQ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 2, 2020 Hibernated

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